Word: anguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which I hoped would fire their enthusiasm without committing me further than I was willing to go." It was a brilliant stroke, and his account reveals how meticulously and disdainfully he planned his stage effects. But for the most part, the general's account of France's anguish over Algeria sounds as passionless as a newspaper bulletin about a Métro strike. One wonders: Is this...
...junkie. Captured by a bunch of crooks he has doublecrossed, and locked into a lady's bedroom without his clothes, he dons a pink nightgown and exposes himself through the window to a watching neighbor below, hoping she'll call the police. As he jumps up and down in anguish, opening the nightgown and desperately trying to show enough of himself over the windowsill, the girl slowly starts to strip...
...whether what was done made a difference, whether it marked an episode or an epoch. We are living through one of the most difficult periods of our time. Some say we are divided over Viet Nam; others blame other domestic discord. But I believe the cause of our anguish is deeper. Throughout our history we believed that effort was its own reward. Partly because so much has been achieved here in America, we have tended to suppose that every problem must have a solution and that good intentions should somehow guarantee good results. Utopia was seen not as a dream...
Bewilderment and intense mental anguish invariably accompany the onset of final exams for the average Harvard student because the manner in which final examinations are administered leaves him with an overwhelming sense of their importance but only a superficial perception of their meaning and their relation to his life outside the university. The context in which a student takes his exams is alien to him and to the purpose exams are intended to serve. In light of these considerations, we submit the following proposal for a revised examination procedure...
...Newton was either a radical martyr or a symbol of the winds of destruction. In the end, he was both and he was neither; symbolism overtook reality. In the passions on both sides, there were but few who remembered the death of one man, or the four years of anguish and uncertainty suffered by another man charged with that death...